· Public charity
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Support, promote and fund the arts in kalamazoo county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $27,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $209,085 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $181,585 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $5,500 |
| WELLSPRINGCORI TERRY & DANCERS | $5,500 |
| BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF KALAMAZOO | $5,500 |
| RENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO | $5,500 |
| MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ISIRVING S GILMORE INT'L KEY FESTIVAL3× · 2020–2022 · $24k
- KCKalamazoo Choral Arts Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +57%
- RERENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO2× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue -20%
Funded once
- KBKALAMAZOO BOOK ARTS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +55%
- GAGLASS ART KALAMAZOOone grant, 2020 · $13k
- SISPEAK IT FORWARD INCone grant, 2020 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, with community partners and volunteers, is to create and deliver engaging, inspiring theatrical productions and educational experiences that spark delight, build community, encourage…
Kaleidoscope is a conductorless orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through exhilarating concert experience, artistic excellence, musician leadership, and connecting with the diverse communities of Los Angeles.
The festival of the arts in grand rapids purpose is to bring various types of arts to the city of grand rapids, mi.
Orchestral program for communit
Support of the arts council of greater kalamazoo
Foster professional development of creative artists
Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.
Promote jazz music through free concerts and individual concerts. money is raised through fundraisers to pay for expenes relating to the festival.
To further cultural growth of the community and stimulate continued interest in instrumental music by offering the opportunity for "post school" performances for its members.
Present community concerts to enhance arts and culture and provide educational experience regarding diverse offering of concerts
Further the reading, writing, and performing of poetry through workshops, readings, and other educational programming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Children's Chorus and the most unlike its peers is Edison Neighborhood Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Kalamazoo Choral Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE ENTERPRISES CO ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO BOOK ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Black Arts & Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUEER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds Wellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Enna Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.